1998-1999

WPI Announces 1999 Faculty Honors

WORCESTER, Mass. - Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 1999 Board of
Trustees' awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Research and
Creative Scholarship were presented at the annual Faculty Honors
Convocation, held Tuesday, April 20. John A. McNeill, assistant professor of
electrical and computer engineering, was selected for the Outstanding
Teacher Award. William R. Moser, professor of chemical engineering,
was the recipient of the award for Outstanding Research and Creative
Scholarship. The following awards were also given to WPI teachers and
graduate students:

Amanda Sleeper of Holden, Mass., a graduate student in the
biology/biotechnology department, received the Teaching Assistant of
the Year Award. National Research Society Sigma Xi Graduate Research
Awards were given to Julie Fondurulia of Westminster, Mass., a
graduate student in the mathematics department, for her master's
thesis; and to Cosme Furlong of Worcester, Mass., a graduate student
in the mechanical engineering department, for his Ph.D. dissertation.

The first-ever Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award was given to
Stephen W. Pierson, assistant professor of physics. The award
recognizes innovation in undergraduate teaching and was presented by
Laura Moruzzi of Worcester, whose husband, the late Romeo L. Moruzzi,
came to teach at WPI in 1954 and, among other accomplishments, helped
to establish the WPI Plan. Under the Plan, students integrate classroom
studies with research projects conducted on campus and around the
world.